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Reexamination of ACTFL OPI

The use of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines and Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) has been widespread for language testing even though they have been criticized by researchers of second language acquisition and testing since their genesis in 1982. Much of this criticism has focused on reliability and validity for the OPI. In light of this, the purpose of this paper to identify the criticism on the oral proficiency interview and to provide recommendations for other proficiency test areas of future study. This paper presents (1) an overview of research carried out on the ACTFL OPI and Guidelines, (2) a summary of the criticism leveled against them and discussions on other points of view over the criticism learned from research, and (3) recommendations such as interrater reliability, raters’ training session, elicitation process, comparison with other oral proficiency test, analytic assessment, oral proficiency interview for multi-purposes for further research.